A study on anger expression as a dimension of workplace emotion Palaparthi Nagalakshmi*, Dr. Rani K. Jawahar** *Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai – 119 **Professor, Department of Management Studies, St.Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai - 119 Abstract Anger is a state of acute emotional reaction, elicited by any of a number of stimulating situations including threat, overt aggression, restraint, verbal attack, disappointment or frustration, Bhatia and Sharma (1989). Anger as a most primitive emotion is experienced by all category of working class. It’s the common emotions in stressful interpersonal situations encountered by present day employees in the organization. Anger may be triggered by two category of events namely interference with the pursuit of a goal, under the influence of some primary or secondary need and a felt approach upon values, possession, status or habitual and attitudes towards other persons Mckellar(1950). Anger expression scales classify individuals as anger-in and anger-out. Anger-in, if they tend to suppress their anger or direct it inward the ego or self and Anger-out, if they express anger toward other persons or objects in the environment, Evans and Stageland (1971). The present study is an attempt to assess the intensity of anger experienced by men and women, thereby find out the if there exists any difference between various dimensions of anger expressed by male and female in work situations. Top |